The Sophia of Jesus Christ · 10 of 11

Mother Sophia and Yaldabaoth

1. Mary asked him: “Holy Christ, from where did your disciples originate, and to where are they going, and how should they act here?”

2. The perfect Savior said: “I desire that you know concerning Sophia, the Mother of the Totalities.

3. I will manifest his benevolence, and it will be manifested (that) together with his mercy and his unfathomable nature he created the curtain between the immortals and those that arrived thereafter, that the result could follow every aeon and chaos, so that the deficiency of the female could ‹appear›, and that it could transpire that Error would struggle with her.

4. And these came to comprise the curtain of the Spirit.

5. As I earlier mentioned, from ‹the› aeons above the emanations of Light, a droplet from the Light and the Spirit descended to the lower places of chaos belonging to the Almighty, so that their molded shapes could appear from that droplet, because it is a judgment on him, the arch-begetter, who is called ‘Yaldabaoth.’

6. That droplet revealed their molded shapes through breath, operating as a living soul.

7. It was wilted and it slept in the ignorance of the soul.

8. When it grew hot because of the breath of the great male light, and it contemplated, (and) when the breath blew into (the immortal one), names were obtained from that immortal one by everyone in the world of chaos and by everything in it.

9. When, however, this transpired by the will of Mother Sophia, so that in that place the Immortal Human could sew together garments as a judgment against the thieves, ‹he› subsequently greeted the exhalation of that breath.

10. Because, however, he was soulish, he was unable to gain that power for himself before the number of those of chaos was completed, before the time ordained by the great angel is completed.

11. I have now instructed you concerning the Immortal Human, and have loosed the fetters of the thieves from him.

12. In front of them I shattered the gates of the merciless ones, shaming their evil intention, and all of them have been disgraced, and have ‹not› risen from their ignorance.

13. This is why, then, I came to this place, that they could be joined with that Spirit and breath, and could from two become one, just as it was from the beginning, that you could produce much fruit and ascend to He Who Is from the beginning, in unspeakable joy and glory and honor and the gift of the Father of the World.

14. Consequently, whoever knows the Father in perfect knowledge will go to the Father and repose in the unbegotten Father.

15. However, whoever knows him imperfectly will remain in the deficiency and repose in the Ogdoad.

16. Now, whoever silently knows the immortal Spirit of light, by reflecting and agreeing with the truth, if he gives to me signs of the Invisible One, he will become a light in the silent Spirit.

17. Whoever knows the Son of Man in knowledge and love, if he gives me a sign of the Son of Man, he can go to dwell with those in the Ogdoad.